News24.com | OPINION | German Ambassador Andreas Peschke: What Gorbachev meant to me growing up in East Germany

The German ambassador to South Africa, Andreas Peschke was 16 and living in what was then called East Germany when Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power. He details how a wave of democracy followed in central and Eastern Europe.

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